Apache Spark on Kubernetes

Kubernetes is a fast growing open-source platform which provides container-centric infrastructure. Conceived by Google in 2014, and leveraging over a decade of experience running containers at scale internally, it is one of the fastest moving projects on GitHub with 1000+ contributors and 40,000+ commits. Kubernetes has first class support on Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure.

Unlike YARN, Kubernetes started as a general purpose orchestration framework with a focus on serving jobs. Support for long-running, data intensive batch workloads required some careful design decisions. Engineers across several organizations have been working on Kubernetes support as a cluster scheduler backend within Spark. During this process, we encountered several challenges in translating Spark considerations into idiomatic Kubernetes constructs. In this talk, we describe the challenges and the ways in which we solved them. This talk will be technical and is aimed at people who are looking to run Spark effectively on their clusters. The talk assumes basic familiarity with cluster orchestration and containers.

Timothy Chen is the CTO of Hyperpilot, and also a PMC/committer on Apache Drill and Apache Mesos. Before joining Hyperpilot, Timothy was the lead engineer at Mesosphere working on container runtime and Spark on Mesos.

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